I always thought I understood and knew God’s purpose for my life. But it seems that every time I thought I knew what God was doing, a detour happened. A life detour is when God takes you in a direction that you did not expect to go.

When God first gave me the vision for the Vision Building Women, He gave it to me as I was in the midst of doing something else that I knew He had given to me to do. I was in the middle of moving forward with the ministry that God had placed in my heart, […]

Recently at a conference, I listened to the testimony from a woman who God prepared for a major event in her life. She told us how God put a scripture in her heart and how she studied and meditated on this scripture for about two months. She would meditate on it day and night. The […]

You were made for a specific assignment. Your assignment was designed by God and made specifically for you to carry out. Yet how many times have you not done something that you know God told you to do? There have been times when I know that God gave me an assignment and I didn’t immediately […]

My experience began in September 2011 and ended December 16, 2011 (Yes, I remember the exact day it ended). I was so busy doing the “work” of ministry, that I neglected the ministry that needed to take place within me. My first book, The Ministry Within, had just been published. My grandmother had just gone […]

As a child and teenager growing up in Rockingham, North Carolina, my parents would often say to me, “Saundra, you must be careful who you hang around. Some people lift you up and others will beat you down.” It has taken me almost half a century to fully understand the depth and wisdom of those […]